Murat (name)
Appearance
Murat is a male Turkish name, spelled as Murad during the Ottoman period. Its meaning can be translated roughly into desire, wish, yearning or goal. It may refer to:
Given name
- Murat Akça (born 1990), Turkish footballer
- Murat Akyüz (born 1981), Turkish footballer
- Murat Bardakçı (born 1955), Turkish journalist
- Murat Başesgioğlu (born 1955), Turkish politician and MP for Kastamonu
- Murat Belge (born 1943), Turkish liberal intellectual, academic, literary critic, columnist, and civil rights activist
- Murat Boz (born 1980), Turkish pop singer
- Murat Ceylan (born 1988), Turkish footballer
- Murat Çetinkaya (born 1976), Governor of the Central Bank of Turkey
- Murat Didin (born 1955), Turkish basketball coach
- Murat Direkçi (born 1979), Turkish kickboxer
- Murat Duruer (born 1988), Turkish footballer
- Murat Evliyaoğlu (born 1969), Turkish basketball player
- Murat Gülsoy (born 1967), Turkish writer
- Murat Günak (born 1957), Turkish automobile designer
- Murat Karayalçın (born 1943), Turkish politician
- Murat Karayılan (born 1954), Acting Leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party or PKK
- Murat Kaya (born 1984), Turkish basketball player
- Murat Kurnaz (born 1982), Turkish former prisoner at Guantanamo Bay
- Murat Önal (born 1987), Turkish-Dutch footballer
- Murat Önür (born 1981), Turkish footballer
- Murat Öztürk (aviator) (1953–2013), Turkish aerobatic pilot
- Murat Öztürk (born 1969), Turkish football coach
- Murat Sözgelmez (born 1985), Turkish footballer
- Murat Torun (born 1994), Turkish footballer
- Murat Yenipazar (born 1993), Turkish volleyball player
- Murat Yıldırım (disambiguation)
- Murat Zyazikov (born 1957), 2nd President of the Russian republic of Ingushetia
- Murat Pasha (disambiguation)
- Murat Reis (disambiguation)
Ottoman nobility
- Murad I (1326–1389), Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1359 to 1389
- Murad II (1404–1451), Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1421 to 1451
- Murad III (1546–1595), Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1574 to 1595
- Murad IV (1612–1640), Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1623 to 1640
- Murad V (1840–1904), Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 30 May to 31 August 1876
Surname
- Henriette-Julie de Murat (1670–1716), French writer
- Jean-Louis Murat (born 1952), pseudonym of French singer Jean-Louis Bergheaud
- Joachim Murat (1767–1815), King of Naples and Marshal of France from 1808 to 1815
- Kapllan Murat (born 1962), Belgian criminal
- Karo Murat (born 1983), German boxer of Armenian descent
- Marko Murat (1864–1944), Croatian painter
- Özkan Murat (born 1957), Turkish politician
- Tuğçe Murat (born 1991), Turkish basketball player
- Zeynep Murat (born 1983), Turkish female taekwondo practitioner